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Nota in Brevis
Saint Joseph Cottolengo and Giving Everything
Saint Joseph Cottolengo (1786 - 1842) signifies a life of total service to others. He was born the eldest of twelve children, into a comfortably well-off middle class family. He discerned a class to...
Editor's Corner
Marie of the Incarnation: A Saint for Canada
Saint Marie of the Incarnation (1599 – 1672) was a mystic and missionary to Canada, contemporaneous with the first settlers of this wild and savage land, along with the Franciscans and Jesuits who brought...
Editor's Corner
Saint Pius V: Between Heaven and Earth
Michel Ghislieri was born as Anton in 1504, but took the name of the Archangel 'who is like God' when he joined the Dominican Order at the age of 14, and never looked back....
Editor's Corner
Carney One, Canada Zero
Canada has likely reached the point of no return, like a 12-0 hockey game in the final minutes of the third period, with the goalie pulled. I don’t play the game – soccer is...
Editor's Corner
Catherine of Siena, Mystic, Doctor and Reformer
Ecclesia semper reformanda est.Â
So goes the old saying - the Church, always in need of reform - applies now, perhaps, more than ever. And one of her greatest reformers was not a Pope, nor...
Editor's Corner
What Choice on Election Day?
It's election day here in Canada, even if we don't have much of a choice. We have Mark Carney, about whom Scott Ventureyra wrote a masterful critique, warning his fellow Canadians about what the...
Editor's Corner
Saints Peter Chanel and Louis Grignon de Montfort
On this 28th of April we celebrate two Saints:Â Saint Peter Chanel (+1841) who evangelized the island of Futuna in the South Pacific - the first to bring the Gospel to a people who had...
Articles
Our Lady’s Good Counsel
Our Lady of Good Counsel - Mater Boni Consilii - is one of the many titles of the Virgin Mary, this one dating back indirectly to the 5th century, when Pope Sixtus III provided...
